Currency in Apocalypse Worlds

Peter, that was brilliant - thanks for the link.

Wow, Peter! Thank you!

Amazing link.

Our model for barter: Barter is anything liquid (in the economic sense) that you, at this moment, want to exchange for another good.

So: I buy three cans of gas from Beansy (1 barter). I go to the market and use some extra veggies I have to buy a new 9mm. (1 barter). On the sheet, those are the same barter. Commodities are not mechanically tracked. The veggies didn't "exist" until I went to buy the gun. The fact that I bought gas and lost food are cues for the GM to possibly make me buy food later, but that I don't need to buy gas for a while. Simple.

Have a new game starting up in a frozen apocalypse.
Barter in trade for anything you can burn, especially oil, candles, wax, long-burning stuff. Working electric heater and generator would be worth a fortune.

I must be in a pedantic mood today.  I don't think you can really call things like "food, gasoline, and bullets" a "currency."  A "currency", according to the definition I just looked up is a "medium of exchange."  "Medium" means that it's intermediate, so directly exchanging the shit that people actually want and need doesn't really count.

In Metro 2033 (a video game) there's a neat example of this. The main currency is pre-apocalypse military ammunition. You can use it as ammo (it's more reliable and does more damage), or you can hoard it and trade it for many times more post-war ammo (which is unreliable and does less damage).

In the game we've just started, it's S&H Green Stamps.  100 stamps is 1 barter in the hardholds, so a page with 50 stamps on each side is worth 1 barter.

Exactly how this came to pass is yet to be explored.

OMG... I remember them a kid!